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Scrotwm
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Scrotwm is an ISC licensed tiling window manager for X11, with design goals of appropriate minimalism in both visual design and implementation. Its apperance is quite sparse to conserve screen real-estate; windows have only a 1 pixel border and no decorations, and the optional information bar is not required for operation. Like most tiling window managers, the use of of a mouse is optional. Written in C, there are only a few thousand lines of code, and no mandatory external dependencies for configration or operation. The project began in January 2009 resulting from the authors years of frustration with other window managers. The prototype was written in less than an hour after a "how hard can it be?" moment. It didn't do much besides stacking xterms in a sane configuration. This was enough to kick start development and within a week the window manager was very capable. Development is done by Marco Peereboom & Ryan Thomas McBride. Others contributed ideas and small patches. Development is done on OpenBSD, however it is tested and used on Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD as well. Major features Though being a young project, Scrotwm currently supports the following major features: * Dynamic xinerama support * Navigation anywhere, to all screens or windows, with either the keyboard or mouse * Customizable status bar * Human readable configuration file * Restartable without losing state * Quick launch menu via dmenu * Horizontal & vertical tiling algorithms with master area concept * Windows can be added or removed from master area * Drag-to-float windows * Windows can be moved to, or within, any workspace or region * User definable regions * Resizable master area * Move & resize floating windows * No mouse dependency 
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